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Examples
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Fifty degrees below zero meant eighty-odd degrees of frost.
To Build a Fire 2010
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Last week someone told me that in his eighty-odd years he had never seen such pervasive levels of fear and anger.
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Grinning, he was almost a work of art: an antique, a hundred and eighty-odd years old, like a Hannes Bok illustration of Lovecraft.
Minnesota Menage Jack Swenson 2010
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The violent overthrow of Reconstruction in the South and imposition of Jim Crow laws relegated most black Americans to second-class citizenship for another eighty-odd years, until the civil rights movement smashed the legal underpinnings of segregation and the 1965 Voting Rights Act finally gave the power of the vote to all.
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The violent overthrow of Reconstruction in the South and imposition of Jim Crow laws relegated most black Americans to second-class citizenship for another eighty-odd years, until the civil rights movement smashed the legal underpinnings of segregation and the 1965 Voting Rights Act finally gave the power of the vote to all.
Yes We Can, Said Barack Obama, And We Did Erik Ose 2010
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It was the orientation for the new eighty-odd LL. M class, but the eleven S.J.D. admits were also called to be oriented.
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I seem to recall that it was eighty-odd years one-way, but that's from memory, so it could be off.
Archive 2009-07-01 Steve Perry 2009
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It was the orientation for the new eighty-odd LL. M class, but the eleven S.J.D. admits were also called to be oriented.
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The violent overthrow of Reconstruction in the South and imposition of Jim Crow laws relegated most black Americans to second-class citizenship for another eighty-odd years, until the civil rights movement smashed the legal underpinnings of segregation and the 1965 Voting Rights Act finally gave the power of the vote to all.
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Meanwhile, the force of eighty-odd demons fought a desperate battle amongst themselves that continued to deplete their ranks.
Monolith John Passarella 2004
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